Word: gruffness
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Monty Woolley has doffed his smirk and wisecracking manner, but he's retained all his spark and individuality as the gruff title character of the "Pied Piper." The saga of one Englishman's battle to escape the rush of the Nazi armies through France, and of the waifs he picks up on his way, the "Pied Piper" is an original and highly effective film account of one of the dramatic episodes of this...
...Marquess was a gruff-voiced Lord-of-the-Manor type who had divorced his wife, the Lady Emma, second daughter of the Marquess of Bath. There had been a great clatter and clucking at the divorce. His Lordship did not seem to mind the talk. One of his ancestors had been a bosom friend of Henry VIII, and the men of Northampton had never bothered greatly about what others said. Their motto was "I seek only...
Brahms: Six Intermezzi and Two Rhapsodies (Artur Rubinstein, pianist; Victor; 8 sides). Gruff, warmhearted Brahms is revealed in these rugged romantic works of small-scale architecture, played with fire, poetry, complete authority...
Mister I was undoubtedly designed for propaganda as well as pleasure, but the gruff Gestapo is too charmingly outfoxed to be taken seriously. The Gestapo head, biding his time, huffs: "Rome wasn't built in a day-even by Mussolini...
Back in the Germany of 1932 it became clearer every day that she must leave: "the people seemed sad, and gruff. . . ." She saw her two sons drifting towards Naziism, and realized, seismographically rather than rationally, what Europe was in for. "I packed up my children and came." She became a U.S. citizen two years...